How does the housing crisis affect women? Rising Covid rates

Last week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveiled his 'benefits to bricks' plan to tackle the UK housing crisis - the chronic shortage of homes to rent and buy and climbing property prices. According to the charity Shelter at present across the UK there are 17.5 million adults without safe, secure or stable homes. If you include children in this number it is one in three. A new book Tenants is about people on the frontline of Britain's housing emergency – and describes particularly how a shortage of homes is affecting women. The author is journalist Vicky Spratt, housing correspondent for the I newspaper, and she joins Emma in the studio. Covid rates appear to be rising again and some experts are predicting a new wave of the virus over the summer. In the week to 2 June, one in 65 people in the UK were testing positive, up from one in 70 the previous week. But do we actually need to worry about it – and if so, what should we be should we be doing to protect ourselves? Emma will be getting the thoughts of Professor Devi Sridhar, who is chair of global public health at Edinburgh University, and sits on the Scottish Government Covid-19 Advisory Group.